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Press Association 2021
Police frogmen searching the area where Lord Mountbatten was killed when an IRA bomb, destroyed his boat off the coast of Co Sligo, Ireland
Restrictions on access to the diaries of Lord and Lady Mountbatten should be eased “without further obfuscation and delay”, MPs have urged.
A £2 million heritage grant in 2010 enabled the University of Southampton to purchase the Broadlands Archive, which contains 4,500 boxes of official papers and personal correspondence from major figures in the Victorian era.
The papers of the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, the last viceroy of India, are part of the collection – and it includes a handwritten note from Mahatma Gandhi to Mountbatten where he details his vow of silence.